Heather Hansman is an award-winning freelance writer, a former editor at Powder and Skiing magazines, and a semi-reformed ski bum. Her book, Downriver, about paddling the Green River and the future of water in the Western U.S., was published in March 2019. REI member since 2009.
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I’m not a fiction writer, but if I were to write a novel about the dystopian future I might set it in ...
So, you want to make it work in a ski town? You know about the classic first-year liftie jobs at the ski hill and the constant cliché about the mountain-town ba...
OK, it’s not really a secret. You can basically spit on Denver from the top of Arapahoe Basin’s East Wall, and the mountain is typically one of the country’s fi...
Three miles into a humid, 11-mile run—just far enough that it was silly to turn back—I started to have regrets. They had been riding up the whole time, but as I...
“Well, here goes,” she wrote in the trail register at the southern terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail. She second-guessed her vagueness, and her modesty. “To C...
In early October, ski patrollers at Colorado’s rugged Silverton Mountain were already making powder turns. By November, the mountain had seen 246 percent of ave...
Kate Courtney says she just has a particularly high level of grit.
That may be true, but it takes more than grit to top the podium. She won the women’s UCI M...
